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England face the daunting task of taking on New Zealand as they attempt to get their uninspiring autumn campaign back on track on Saturday.
Days before India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House for his first state visit with President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have concerned Indian officials that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian rel...
WINONA, Minn. -- Christina and Jesse Fladmark were married on Flag Day last year at a band shell on the Mississippi River. They chose the spot largely because Jesse, a soldier, draws strength from the nearby war memorial.
The area of the attack is believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.
Vietnamese officials deny blocking access to Facebook for the site's million users, instead blaming a technical fault.
Several children and a police officer were among the victims of the blast on a crowded market.
The Japanese government warns that deflation has returned to the country's economy for the first time since 2006.
At least five people are killed in a shooting incident on Saipan, one of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific.
A former leader of the Tiananmen democracy protests, handed over by Hong Kong to China, goes on trial in what his supporters call political persecution.
Secret scholarships to study in China that were awarded to the offspring of top officials in Namibia have angered the public there.
The recent unpopularity of President Asif Ali Zardari and resentment of America follow a familiar script.
In his inaugural address, President Hamid Karzai said that the Afghan Army should assume full control of the country's security within five years.
Prior to a climate change meeting scheduled for Copenhagen, industrialized countries, except the United States, are offering targets to curb greenhouse gases.
South Korean model Daul Kim is found dead at her apartment in Paris, amid speculation she took her own life.
Authorities appeared to carefully monitor how President Obama's words were transmitted to China's public, even in a newspaper known for its press-the-envelope approach.
President Obama sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Afghanistan to press President Hamid Karzai to deliver "measurable results" in return for civilian aid.
Philippine boxing champion Manny Pacquiao returns home to Manila after his latest win, and eyes a political future.
KABUL -- President Hamid Karzai set two ambitious goals in his inauguration speech Thursday: to have Afghan soldiers and police take full responsibility for security within the next five years and to root out the pervasive corruption that hobbled his first administration.
SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
PAKISTAN A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance...
Chinese spies are aggressively stealing secrets to help build up China's military and economic power, a US advisory panel says.
SEOUL -- President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said Thursday.
SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit Thursday to South Korea was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
President Obama discovered that popularity did not necessarily translate into policy successes in Asia.
Growth and recovery are expected in 2010 in most world regions, but the upturn will be modest, the OECD says.
US President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urge North Korea to return to nuclear talks.
SEOUL -- For the Obama administration, North Korea has followed a familiar script. It has made trouble, exploding a nuclear device. It has made nice, inviting U.S. officials to visit. And it has made a mess of growing food, needing handouts from the rich countries it threatens.
IRAN Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, brushing aside the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from potentially building nuclear weapons. Instead, Manouchehr Mottaki said, Iran would consider a nuclear swap...
TARUNA JAYA, INDONESIA -- Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, ...
The final details were minor compared with the substance of the financial cooperation deal between China and Taiwan, but carried significance of their own.
A scarcity of people willing to do the risky work of coconut plucking threatens India's coconut industry and illustrates the loosening of caste bonds.
An 81-year-old Australian takes a wrong turn on the way to the shops and keeps driving for 600km.
MANILA, Nov 18 (IPS)- Although women have long made major contributions to science, their efforts have often been overlooked. For the past 12 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has teamed up with cosmetics giant L'Oréal to highlight the achievements of female scientists.
The old custom of giving cash-filled envelopes at weddings is being criticized as wasteful and, in some cases, even corruptive.
BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS)- Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women's rights advocate and senior United Nations official.
PHNOM PENH, Nov 20 (IPS)- Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct in the wild.
VIENTIANE, Nov 20 (IPS)- Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.
VANCOUVER, Canada, Nov 20 (IPS)- In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS)- Thailand's capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels' and the ‘Venice of the East', is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
KABUL, Nov 19 (IPS)- In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, Caterpillar turbines custom-built in Germany and giant transformers flown in from Mexico hum away at a brand-new power plant.
LADAKH, India, Nov 18 (IPS)- The combined impact of tourism, climate change and changing lifestyle in this internationally renowned adventure haven has raised serious concerns among environmental groups.
KABUL, Nov 18 (IPS)- Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
WEST JAVA, Indonesia , Nov 19 (IPS)- Ida Farida, 33, never imagined she would lose the job that she had held for 10 years.
COLOMBO, Nov 18 (IPS)- By January 2010 they will be returning to their homes in war-torn areas.
HANOI, Nov 19 (IPS)- As Vietnam's big cities are increasingly deluged by floods, the infrastructure cannot keep up.
Tokyo now has the most Michelin three-star restaurants, overtaking Paris as the world's culinary capital, says the authoritative food guide.
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